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WGHubris on August 5th, 2011

Here is a partial list of the things I need to read to stay on top of all the things from my Twitter feed that I have found interesting or that I think I need to know for business or personal reasons. I use the "Star" function in TweetDeck to bookmark tweets that I want [...]

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WGHubris on November 19th, 2010

I was a big fan of HootSuite. HootSuite is a web-based service that you can use to manage multiple Twitter user streams. It also works on several other services as well, although I really only use it for my numerous Twitter accounts. HootSuite was a free service that allowed users to manage several streams at [...]

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WGHubris on May 17th, 2010

Need to create a brand new list inside of HootSuite instead of importing a list from Twitter? They got you covered with functionality and documenation.

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WGHubris on February 19th, 2010

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and [...]

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Update: It seems that Amazon is going out of its way to make me look foolish   Just kidding. Actually, just got an email update, partially excerpted below, from the Amazon Associates folks about a new way that the affiliate program will integrate directly with Twitter. Basically, it makes the rest of this post moot, [...]

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WGHubris on May 7th, 2009

I can’t ever properly Re-Tweet a truly interesting Tweet.  That is because truly interesting tweets come from people who care about Tweeting interesting things.  That means they don’t necessarily care about chopping their tweet down small enough to be re-Tweetable like those who care more about getting exposure and re-tweets than putting up interesting things [...]

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The guys over at the Blog Herald have a nice big headline saying that Top Tech Brand’s Don’t Get Twitter.  Then, they say nothing, and point to a “study” at Pingdom which notes that 67 of the top tech companies don’t have a “main” Twitter account registered in their name.  Shocking! Or is it? Sometimes, [...]

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